Christian Philipp of Roques

Christian Philipp von Roques (born October 9, 1808 in Treysa , † December 31, 1891 in Kassel ) was a German lawyer and politician.

Von Roques was the son of the chief pastor and metropolitan in Treysa Jean Christophe François (Franz) von Roques and his wife Catharina Sophie Göbel. On April 15, 1857 in Frankfurt am Main, he married Bertha Katharina Roques, the daughter of the merchant Franz Theodor Ferdinand Roques. The Hessian War Minister Hieronymus Heinrich von Roques (1795–1850) was a brother.

From 1824 von Roques studied law in Marburg . In 1832 he was appointed regional court assessor in Kassel and in 1835 in Rauschenberg . In 1836 he was appointed senior judge in Kassel, where he became senior judge in 1842. In 1843 he moved to the government of the province of Niederhessen as a councilor and from 1844 was at the same time a member of the management of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Nordbahn-Gesellschaft . From 1845 he was a lecturing council in the Kassel Ministry of the Interior, from 1846 also a member of the senior building management. In 1849 he became a senior judge in Kassel and in 1850 in Hanau . In 1850 he was also the sovereign commissioner of the Kaufungen and Wetter monasteries . From 1851 he was a senior appellate judge at the Kassel Higher Appeal Court and at times also the Hessian envoy to the Bundestag of the German Confederation . In 1867 he retired.

In 1850 he was a member of the state house of the Erfurt Union Parliament .

literature

• Jochen Lengemann : The German Parliament (Erfurt Union Parliament) from 1850. A manual: Members, officials, life data, parliamentary groups (= publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia. Large series, Vol. 6). Urban & Fischer, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-437-31128-X , p. 266.